Name: JIMMY CARR RETURNS! | You Made It Weird with Pete Holmes
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'JIMMY CARR RETURNS! | You Made It Weird with Pete Holmes' from Pete Holmes on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-04-17. Transcript available.

JIMMY CARR RETURNS! | You Made It Weird with Pete Holmes

You made it weird, you made it weird, yes you did, you made it weird, yeah.
You made it weird, you made it weird, you made it weird, yes you did, you made
it weird, yeah.
What's happening weirdos? This is the return of Jimmy Carr, who I'm so excited
to have him
in the studio for the first time. He did a live episode a few years back in
Montreal with me and
the Sklar brothers, which was awesome. He's hilarious. But this is the real
deal, I think.
One-on-one, me and Jimmy. He's so thoughtful, he's so interesting, he's so
funny, obviously.
And Jimmy has a new Netflix special, he's returning to Netflix with his latest
stand-up special,
Jimmy Carr, Natural Born Killer, out now. We talk a little bit about it, no
spoilers,
but obviously I tell him how much I loved it. And Jimmy's brand new
international tour,
Jimmy Carr laughs funny. Laughs funny. It's on sale now for tickets and info.
Visit jimmycarr.com, that's Carr with two R's, jimmycarr.com for more. Check
out his special
on Netflix and go see him live. I mean, come on. I'm also really, really happy
to say the
shows in Florida this weekend went amazing. I want to thank all the weirdos
that came out
to support me in Dania. Dania? I think I'm saying it right now. Dania, Florida.
I loved it.
A special shout out to Jules and Maria, the two super weirdos that I met after
the show. Such
sweethearts. And I was so happy to spend some time with them. All right, let's
get to it.
PeteHolmes.com for tickets. We're adding another show to Chicago. Second show
on Thursday, because all
the other ones sold out, which is awesome. And all the tour dates are on PeteHolmes.com.
In fact,
I think I have some new ones that are hopefully up here. Yeah, we have Los
Angeles on May 4th,
Chicago, Houston, Homestead, Pennsylvania, and yeah, Brookfield, Wisconsin at
the Milwaukee Improv.
So all of those have been announced, PeteHolmes.com. In the meantime, enjoy
this chat with the
wonderful Jimmy Carr, Natural Born Killer, out now on Netflix. Everybody, get
into it.
That's what Jimmy's used to.
That's actually part of my rider. People might think you clap just for sync,
but actually that's
a huge part of my process. Is walking in when people are syncing microphones.
You dapper man, I can help you. I'm not going to get it, but right there you
have a little
book of tree stuff. The stuff of trees, Jimmy. Why wouldn't you get it? Is it
not your pay grade?
What's your problem? I didn't want to freak you out. That's what it was. How
freaked out
can I be? Honestly, I would have. This is nice. Very nice to see you. It's so
nice to see you.
I admire you so much. Oh, stop it. Stop it. All I really, have we started? Yes.
This is it.
Okay. This is it. All I want to talk about is Comedy Sex God. No. It's all I
want to discuss.
Is that real? Yeah, because I knew it was coming on, so I read it, and it's a
phenomenal piece of work.
It is not. It's a really, really great book. I've been quoting you up and down
town. That line
from ACDC's road manager. Yeah, Barry Taylor. Barry Taylor. Give us the line
again.
God is the name of the mystery. I'm sorry. God is the name of the blanket. We
put over the mystery to
give it a shape. It blew my mind. It's such a wonderful, because there's two
kinds of idiots,
right? Tell me. There's people that believe in the fairy stories, and there's
people that say,
there's no point in any of this. It's a waste of time. Yes. And there he is.
There's a middle way
of kind of going, yeah, there's something to be had here. Yes. I am. ACDC's
road manager. Well,
do you know I do it, if you, you don't, certainly don't have to, my latest
special, I do it on stage.
Yes, I saw it. That part of the book was so important to me. Oh, thank you.
Yeah, I loved it.
I brought it on stage, because I was like, that's my whole thing, is I just
want people to hear that
quote. No, the other bit that really, you really got into my head with was the
bit about going,
well, I believe when I die, I go back to God, and you believe in nothing. You
believe you go back to
nothing. I think we might be talking about the same thing. That's exactly right.
It's really
interesting, kind of, I forget what the faith is, but the one that kind of
worships all the faiths,
you kind of go, there's something in this. Yeah, sort of a, what do they call
it? The perennial
wisdom, sort of like, everybody's pointing to the same thing. Yeah. More or
less. And honestly,
I'm real into this stuff, and my wife will tell you that, it's a joke here, my
wife will tell,
at ease. Sure. I actually realized, I was like... He's wife. He's wife. The
creepy bit is this will
be watched back, because the wife's clearly buried in the garden. Clearly. Oh,
my wife will tell you.
No, Jimmy. I can operate, I can operate her head from above. I realized we were
having a sincere
conversation, and I was like, you don't have to poke him and make him into, you
know what I mean? We can
relax. I regret doing that. And I forgot what I was saying, but my wife, what
did I say? My wife will
tell you that... We don't know. We don't know. We don't know what she'll say.
It doesn't matter.
But that stuff is the most important stuff in the world to me, and I study it
very... Oh,
she'll tell you that nothing excites me more, for real, than when I find
teachers from different
traditions saying the exact same thing. And I know that sounds like an exaggeration,
but when I'm reading somebody from the non-dual understanding, or somebody from
the even mystical
Catholic, or whatever it is, and they say something, and I'm like, but that's
from this. And they don't
even know that they're quoting one another. It makes me filled with joy, just
kind of like I am right
now, that you read and enjoyed my book. I really enjoyed it. I thought it was
great. It's a great
story as well. It's a great kind of... Because it strikes me that with Crashing,
it's the first bit of
the book. It's like the divorce, and the comedy, and New York, and stuff. And I
love that show,
because it struck me as a very authentic, realistic view of a very glamorous
bit of the world for me.
I mean, it might not have felt glamorous when you're sleeping on people's couches,
or starting off
and flying in New York. I know what you mean, though. But coming from the UK,
and kind of the American
stand-up scene always looked so kind of great. And it's an American medium,
right? Yeah. It's like the
Western, jazz, stand-up comedy. Yes. The great gifts America's given the world.
Yes. I completely agree.
The word I would use is romantic. So obviously not sexually romantic, but there's
a romance to
like... And we shot it on the corner that I really handed out flyers. And when
we were back there...
Still, when I walk by, it's 3rd and McDougal. I walk by, I'm like... I'm like
starstruck by a corner.
And that I got... This is all hindsight. I wish I had nostalgia for the present.
And I did have a
little. Even while I was doing it, I was like, I can't believe I'm going to go
up in Manhattan tonight.
But now I look back and I'm like, do you have that too? I mean... No, no. I
think that for me,
that would be the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Yeah, the origin story. And the
trenches and the guys
that you came up with. Yeah. And kind of where everyone ended up. It feels like
kind of the end
of a war movie. Now if this guy made it, this guy didn't make it. You know,
whatever that is for you,
it feels like the where are they now kind of thing. I'm so with you. And I
think about... They don't
know... The people that I started with that aren't doing it anymore with full
respect, but they just,
they stopped. I know their acts and I think about them and they're still making
me laugh. And there's
something really kind of like, I don't know. I hope that's sweet to them. It's
lovely. I don't know if
there's any legacy in comedy. My theory is it all goes back in the pot. It's
like, well, you know,
because people go, who was I chatting about yesterday? Don Rickles, right? I
was in Vegas and
I was chatting about Don Rickles and these guys didn't know who Don Rickles was.
And you kind of go,
okay, well, that doesn't matter because Jeff Ross exists. And Jeff has taken
some essence of Don
Rickles and he now does that thing. And it's like, okay, well, that's great too.
That works.
Don threw the stone in the lake and the ripples continue, even if you don't
remember the stone,
which is kind of sad. Obviously there's a mourning to that. I mean, I kind of
think that the,
I like that thing of you die twice the day they forget you. Yeah. The last time
someone says your
name. Yeah. It's nice. It's a nice thing of like, I always think when, when
someone tells you about
grief or whatever you go, what was their name? It's a nice remembrance. Yeah.
Just a little thing,
but it's nice. Our dog just died. And my five and a half year old daughter,
I think we're getting a new dog today. Question mark. I think that's where my
wife might be.
I didn't bring a dog.
Now I feel like a dick. I didn't know I had to bring a dog.
You'll like this Jimmy. Cause I think you'll like this. Correct me if I'm wrong.
I've always, I don't like the fact that your dog died.
No, I know. And we'll get to that. I also, you can see that dog there. Yeah.
Yeah. That's Katie's dog. Okay. Cause I was about to say that dog doesn't know
it's about to die.
We're taping this now, but that, that dog's not going to make it. There's a dog
in the room.
That's not my dog. I am obsessed. You can see her too, right?
No, no. I just want to. Yes. Okay. I didn't lick the back of a frog. I'm just
checking everyone's
real. Not today. So go on. So your dog died. I'm sorry to hear that. It's a
sidebar. I'm obsessed
with reverse engineering, a New Yorker style cartoon where the caption is, this
is just for fun. Two guys
talking. The caption is it's from both of us. And when you said I didn't bring
a dog, it sprung to
mind an option for that cartoon is a guy with a crazy looking dog. His clothes
are all torn up.
You know what I mean? The dog's clearly been attacking him. And then someone
next to him goes,
it's from both of us. That's one way to do it. I've, I've been obsessed with
this for years.
It's from both of us. He's very nice. There could be a barbarian with a severed
head.
He's covered in blood and there's a clean person next to him saying to the king,
it's from both of us.
Yeah. Like I think that's very funny, but if nothing else, I'm planting it in
your mind.
No, I like that. If you ever, I like reverse caption first. I think they should
do that for
the New Yorker. I think that's how old jokes are written. I think comedians are
very much like
detectives because most intelligence is about what's next and we're about what
just happened.
Yes. A lot of what we, what just happened? That seems weird. What just happened
there?
Yes. And kind of calling the situation as is. So we're thinking in reverse,
which is kind of that thing of the, uh, the detective, the classic kind of
Sherlock Holmes
of the, well, it must've been someone they knew cause the dog didn't bark. Noticing
the dog didn't
bark. Yes. Is an unusual thing. Right. Or Ace Ventura with the sliding door. He
said you heard
him scream. And then remember, do you recall? No. Hmm. Saw it once, liked it.
Too busy watching the crown, are we? Yes. Yes. I do masturbate a great deal.
The, I quite like the crown. A friend of mine asked the queen if she'd seen the,
if she'd seen the crown,
which was seen as being a guy called David Tang, who's an extraordinary
character. And, uh, he was
quite good friends with the queen. And he said, did you, have you watched the
crown? And she, she said,
I didn't need to, I was there. That is very good. Kind of good, isn't it? But
don't you think she did?
She must've. My version is, did my ex-wife watch crashing? Don't you think
after all these years,
wouldn't you be curious if my ex-wife made a TV show about our divorce, how
long are you holding
out? She's got to have seen that. A little bit